The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-06

nltiiitF- us lAlfilne place cattle pen, mai
GLORIOUS with unwashed brutes, and dogs
groEling in and out Of the stable Born
Of weary mother who bad journeyed
eighty mikes in severe unhealth that she
might find the right place for the Lords ma
tiyity-born, not as other princes, under the
Hash Of a chandelier, but under a lantern
= swung BY rope 70 the roof Of the barn In
q that place Christ started 10 save you. Your
e name, your face, your time, your eternity,
d In Christ's mind Sometimes travelling on
s mules back to escape old Herods massacre
5 sometimes attempting nervous sleep on the
q chilly hillside, sometimes earning his break
last by the carpeilS-y of plow. In Quaran-
r tania the stones Of the field, by their shape
4 and color, looking like the loaves Of bread,
3 iantalizing bis hunger. Yet all the time
: kseplng on after you With drenched coat
treading the surf at Gene ssaret. Howled after
D BY a bloodthirsty mob Denounced as a
irinkard Mourning over a doomed city,
while others shouted at the sight OF the SHIN
I merlng towers All the time coming ON and
coming On To save you. Indicted as being
traitor against government, perjured wit
ns-sls swearing their souls away TO insure
bis butchery- Flogged, spit on slapped in
the lace and then hoisted on rough lumber,
} In SIGHT Of earth and heaven and hell to
purchase your eternal emancipation. From
the inst infant step TO the last step Of man
hood on the sharp spike OF Calvary journey
Tor you OH how he cared for YOUR soul
BY doiorous arithmetic add up the stable, the
Hintry tempest. the midnight dampneSs the
abstinence OF forty days from food, the brutal
Sanhe'irim. the heights Of Golgotha, across
winch all the hatreds of earth and all the
furies Of hell charged with their bayonets and
then dare TO say again that no one cares for
your soul
4 young man might rs well 20 off from
uoihe and give his father and mother no init
nation as TO where he has gone and, cross
ing the seas, sitting down in some foreign
country cold, sick and hungry and lonely.
saying Ny father and mother don't care
anything about me. Do not care anything
about him Why, that fathers hair has
ltufned gray since his son went of He has
written to all the consuls in the foreign ports,
asking about that son Does not the mother
care anything about himi He has broken her
heart She has never smiled since he went
away. All day long; and almost all night,
she keeps asking. Where is he! Where can
be Der He is the first thought in her PRAYER
and the last thought in her prayer, the first !
thought in the morning and the last at night.
She says; oh, God, bring back my bow /
must see him again before die Where is |
BET must see him again before die ssOh.
DO not his father and mother care for himi ]
You 90 away from your Heavenly Father. I
and you think he does not care for Won
bechuse you will not even read the letters nv I
which he invites you TO come back while /
al heaven IS waiting, and waiting, and wait 1
ing for YOU % return. A young man said To
his father: II am going of: / will write 10 J.
You AZ the end OF seven years and tell YOU
where am Many years have passed along
since that son went away, and for years the
father has been going 20 the depot
IN the village on the arrival of every
train. and when he hears the whistle in the
distance he IS thrilled with excitement. and
be waits until all the passengers have come
out, and then he waits until the train has
gone clear out Of sight again. and then he
90 home Fastening back 10 the next train,
and ne VIII Re at every train until that sou
CONES back, unless the son waits until the
father be desd But oh, the greater patience
OF God lie has been waiting for YOU not
seven years, not nine years, but for some OF
you, twenty years, thirty years. forty years.
hity years-waitmg, calling-waiting, calling
until nothing but Ominpotent patience could
have endured il. Oh, nv brother, do not take
the sentiment Of my text as your sentiment
We DO care for your soul One Sabbath
night years ago, ia my church in Brook
iyri, a young man appeared at the end OF the
Platform and he said to me: II have lust come
of the sea" said: when did YOU arriyeIs
Said be; Il came into port this afternoon |
was in great blow off Cape Hatteras this
last week, and | thought that l might a.
well go To heaven as to he'll. ]
thought the ship would sink ; but, sir,
! never very seriously thought about
my soul until tonight | said TO him: '.Dc
you feel that Christ is able and willing to
save your oh, yes he replied, II doH
W ell, said, nov are you willing 10 come
and be saved by Hmm II am he said
Well viii you now, in the prayer we are
about TO offer. give yourself to God for time
aile et's-n4tys" Il viii, he said Then we ;
knelt in prayer, and after we had got {
through praying. he told that the great Z
had taken place could not
doi10t IL lie is on the sea now do not
know what other port he may gain or lose,
but I think he viii gain the hartor Of beaver, I
Star OF peace, bearn DER the billow,
Bless the soul that signs for Thee:
Bless the sailors lonely pillow,
Far, far Mt sea
Il was sudden conversion with him that
night Oh, that il might be sudden CONVEX
son with you today God can save you in
one moment as well as he can in a century. ,
There are sudden deaths, sudden calamities, (
sudden loses. Why not sudden deliverancesl
Gods spirit IS infinite in speed. He comes !
here with onnipotent power, and he is ready l
here and now instantaneously and forever. I
10 save your soul. believe that multitude :
Of you VIII to-day come to God. feel YOU !
are coming, and you will bring along your
families and your friends with you.
they have heard in heaven already Of q
the step you are are about to take. The =
reNs has been cried along the golden streets
and has rung out from the towers: "a soul
savedi A soul savedn But there is some $
enc here to-day who will reject this gospel
He gIlrstay out Of the kingdom Of God him Z
sci He will keep his family and his friends
HANs II = lQT a Lldn JUST 10
plant himself in the way of life, then keep
back his children, keep back his companion '
in life, - back his business partners-refnse I
10. go int6 heaven himself and refuse 10 let ,
others go in ,,
A young man, at the close of a religious |
service, was asked TO decide the matter OF his /
souls salvation He said: Il will not do il q
tonight Well, the Christian man kept ,
talking with him, and he said; II insist that
tonight you either take God or reject Him.
well said the young man, IF you put it
that way, VIII reject Him. There, now, the
matters settled On his way home on horse
back he knew not that a tree ha fallen aslant S
the road, and he was going at full speesl. and r
be struck the obstacle and dropped lfeless :,
That night his Christian mother heard
the riderless horse plunging about the S
ham, and, mistrusting something terrible S
was the matter, she went out and came to the y
place whsre her son lay, and she cried out: i,
'Oh, Henryi dead and not Christian Oh, I
my soni my sonl Gead and not Christian l.
Oh, Henry Henry dead and not a Chris
tan God keep US from such a catastrophe c
THERE was temporary lull in tho I
dull proceedings of the Supreme Court, a
writes Washington correspondent,
when the rustic of female garments E
was followed by the entrance through =
INC pAAfatc doOA VI a Ocdutl- / n
Jul young lady. 1t was Mrs. Cleveland. 0
She was tastefully dressed in q maroon
colored tailor-made suit. A handsome !
black boa which encircled her neck S
added to the attractiveness of her cos n
tune. She was accompanied by Mrs. |,
Folsom and another lady. Most OF
those present knew Mrs. Cleveland by $
sight, and those who did not were L
speedily relieved of their ignorance. E
Mrs. Cleveland remained in the court =
room about thirty minutes Although |,
the learned counsel in the telephone 8
suit continued his argument, apparent d
ly oblivious of Mrs. Cleveland,s pres =
ence. it was obvious that his words fell Il
upon deaf ears Almost every eye in p
the chan. Ssr was fixed upon her. Tie G